Firas Sleiman, Lead /Senior Architect

Firas Sleiman

Lead /Senior Architect

Dar Al-Handasah shair & Partners

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Architecture
Experience
17 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 4 Months

Lead /Senior Architect at Dar Al-Handasah shair & Partners
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2011

Senior Architect, Project management, construction management, review shop drawings, coordination with client and contractors, DSR Design Safety Reviewer, Review of Architectural items Installations/Methods, working on projects transmittal's and submittals and specifications, coordination between trade engineers (Structure, Mech, Elect, PMC…) Project Development, Manage the statutory approval process to meet the project delivery requirements, Technical construction support of the Issued For Construction (IFC) detailed drawings & 3D Modeling Artist.

-Leadership.
-Good Decision Maker
-Project management
-Site inspection, coordination with the contractor.
-Review of architectural items installation/ Methods .
-review of architectural shop drawings
-Working on specification
-excellent knowledge of planning and building regulations
-Coordination with trade engineers (SMEP) Mech. Elect. and Struc. Eng
-Technical construction support
-Ability to carry out all aspects of Architectural Design from concept through the construction documentation
- Ensure compliance with contract specifications
- Manage all Supervision team including: Site Engineers, Inspectors, Office Engineer, Project Controls Staff, Quality Assurance Staff, Materials Testing and Survey.
- Approve and Respond for All (Technical Submittals, RFIs, Letters, Site Instructions, Site Clarification Requests).
- Supervise construction to insure compliance with the plans, specifications and design.
- Coordination between all disciplines
- Review of architectural shop drawings/Method statement
- Project Material Submittals
- Working on project transmittal\submittals and specifications
- Coordination with Contractor
- Attending meetings with client and contractor and preparing MoM.
- Working on the monthly report
- Coordinate directly with the general contractor and negotiate change orders

Design Architect at Dar Al Handasah - Shair & Partners
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2011 to June 2014

Designer for a big scale project from sketch to the construction phase, DSR Design Safety Reviewer, Review of Architectural items Installations/Methods, working on projects transmittals and submittals and specifications, coordination between trade engineers (Structure, Mech, Elect, PMC…) Project Development, Manage the statutory approval process to meet the project delivery requirements, Technical construction support of the Issued For Construction (IFC) detailed drawings & 3D Modeling Artist for multiple Buildings in Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia - KSA, Yemen, Algeria, Jordan-Amman, Emirates, Nigeria & Angola as per international codes-(Hotel - Residential buildings - Office Buildings, Airport - etc...).


-Designer for a big scale projects
-Project management
-Project Development
-excellent knowledge of planning and building regulations
-Coordination with trade engineers (SMEP) Mech. Elect. and Struc. Eng
-Technical construction support
-Working as DSR (Design Safety Reviewer)
-Ability to carry out all aspects of Architectural Design from concept through the construction documentation

Design Architect at ALSALAAM Architectural & Engineering Studies (Emirates & Lebanon)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2009 to April 2011

Design, coordination with trades engineers (SMEP) and preparation of the Issued For Construction (IFC) detailed drawings for multiple buildings in Emirates & Lebanon in collaboration with AlSALAAM Emirates (office buildings-media centre-residential building-Landscaping -etc.)

-Coordination with contractors/sub contractor
-working on procurement
-coordination with trades SMEP
-working on payment certificate
-Review of architectural item installation, Methods

Architect at ATWE Group
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2006 to April 2009

Architect, Design and preparation of the Approved For Construction (IFC) detailed drawings for multiple buildings (residential buildings-Hotel-Landscaping) in Qatar and Lebanon..

Education

Master's degree, Architecture
  • at Lebanese University - Institute of Fine Arts - Branch 1
  • September 2009
Master's degree, Architecture
  • at Lebanese University
  • July 2009

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Construction Methods
Construction Drawings
Technical Project Leadership
MS Office - Excel
3Dsmax & 3Dsmax Vray
Autocad 2D & 3D
MS Office - Powerpoint
Photoshop
MS Office - Word
project management
Project management
architecture
Schedule Planning

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Naveswork (Certificate)
BIM (Training)
Training Institute:
autodask
Duration:
50 hours
Project and Construction Site Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Projacs Academy
Date Attended:
March 2017
Duration:
50 hours
Managing & Supervising Projects (Certificate)
PSP & PMI-SP Certificates – Certified Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Projacs Academy.
Date Attended:
February 2017
Duration:
53 hours
PMP® Certificate – Certified Program (Training)
Training Institute:
Projacs Academy
Date Attended:
February 2017
Duration:
36 hours

Hobbies

  • reading,painting,kickboxing,traveling